Collection Number | 13 |
Title | Gunung Fuji/Mount Fuji |
Time | Early 20th century/1940s |
Time Acquisition | 1995 |
Place | Japan or places in Indonesia during Japanese occupation |
Place of Acquisition | Antique Shop, Jl. Surabaya, Jakarta, Jakarta Indonesia |
Name Painter (Place and Year of Birth-Death) |
Unknown |
Size | 62cm x 42cm |
Category (Sub-Category) |
Pesage |
Current Location | Palermo, Italy (Home) |
Description | Japanese reverse glass painting landscape featuring a lake surrounded by hills and houses with high trees and in the background Mount Fuji, symbol of Japan. A unique feature of these and other Japanese glass paintings of that time are the collages of mother-of-pearl house roofs and boat sails as well as indented paper pictures of women in their kimonos (as also per below). |